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" Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government. "
David Brock
Hatred
Crisis
Government
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" I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much. "
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" Certainly going back to 2008 during the primary, Secretary Clinton was subjected to various forms of sexism - overt, subtle - that were detrimental. Fortunately, Senator Obama was not subjected to something similar; the culture seemed to tolerate sexism and not racism. We ought not tolerate either. "
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Back
Going
" Progressives are not going to give up on facts. "
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Up
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" The GOP's policies are not designed to help the middle class. They are designed to help their wealthy, powerful friends and donors under the misguided idea that wealth will one day trickle down. "
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" Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public. "
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Leader
Organization
Past
" You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it. "
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Matter
You
Talking
" I don't think the candidate would be directly responsible for things that their supporters say, but when it gets to a certain level, they ought to say, 'Cut it out.' "
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Responsible
Think
Things
" It's important to know where candidates for president are getting their ideas. Where do these ideas come from, who funds them and who is shaping our political discussion? These are all questions that are important to a healthy democracy. "
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Ideas
Come
Political
" Fox prefers to focus on people who are doing bad - especially if they're Democrats, or environmentalists. "
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Fox
People
Who
" Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers, have been funding the infrastructure behind the Republican Party's right-ward shift since at least 1980. "
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Republican
Party
Behind
" I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition. "
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Think
Party
I Think
" Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels. "
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Loss
Lack
Democratic
" I want an audience that's passionate, that can be engaged. "
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Engaged
Audience
Want
" Bill Clinton's legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same. "
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Creation
Same
Who
" We who reject Trump's bankrupt leadership must heal old wounds, reorient ourselves, and embrace common goals. And if there is one thing on which we can all agree, it's this: we cannot concede any ground. "
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Embrace
Leadership
Goals
" Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media. "
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Media
Eventually
Over
" When it comes to Republican debates, fibs and fits come first; facts come last. "
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Republican
Facts
Last
" The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way. "
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Press
Need
Animals
" Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most. "
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Become
Who
Republican
" Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton. "
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Thought
Writing
American
" During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established. "
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Misinformation
Flow
Established
" There's certainly an attitude in some measure of the conservative movement that I believe won't accept the legitimacy of any Democratic president, and I think Obama did fall victim to that - witness the 'birthers.' "
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Believe
Measure
Think
" The pro-Hillary groups needed to quit fighting each other and get down to business fighting Republicans. "
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Other
Business
Fighting
" I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media. "
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Conservative
Watching
Media
" I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it. "
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Professional
Political
Life
" When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock Report. But I was much less interested in my own profile by that point, because I had already done that once, and it was not terribly fulfilling at the end of the day. "
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Media
End
Done
" Trump's opinions on the Iraq War have been as erratic as his opinions on other foreign policy matters - such as his careless position to think more countries should acquire nuclear weapons. "
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Opinions
Think
War
" I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party. "
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Party
Political
Political Party
" Republicans tend to be more steadfast in their allegiance, and Democrats read one headline in the 'New York Times,' and the sky is suddenly falling. "
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New
Democrats
Sky